Extension of Jobless Benefits – Massachusetts

Jobless in Mass. will still get aid, By David Abel and Meghan Irons, April 8, 2010, Boston Globe: “Most Massachusetts residents collecting unemployment benefits will continue receiving assistance for several more weeks, even as tens of thousands of others nationwide began losing the federal aid because Congress left for vacation without extending the benefits. Officials said unemployed people in Massachusetts will temporarily continue to get benefits because of a law passed by the state Legislature last summer. However, if Congress does not extend federal unemployment benefits – which the Senate is scheduled to vote on when it reconvenes next week – as many as 50,000 Massachusetts residents could lose their weekly checks as of May 2, officials said…”